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[ban-ish] / ˈbæn ɪʃ /


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But the real frustration will come from the fact Spurs had the opportunity to banish all relegation fears here and were simply not good enough to take advantage.

From BBC May 19, 2026

We should banish it, because I’ve learned the hard way that it’s too abstract.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2026

He also claims that the prince fears that his brother, the future king, "could remove all the Sussexes' titles and effectively banish him from Britain".

From BBC Mar. 14, 2026

Moments later Cronin was grabbing the kid’s shirt and leading him to the baseline, where he ordered an assistant coach to remove him from the court area and banish him to the locker room.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 18, 2026

Then they left once more, so she could think of a plan to banish the witch.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

Mary appears to have a form of treatment-resistant schizophrenia, until chemotherapy, following a diagnosis of lymphoma, banishes her psychiatric symptoms.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

This major win, surely, banishes such a notion.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2024

It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the invisible, from faraway galaxies to the smallest bacterium.

From Science Daily May 23, 2024

This is the moment each year in which I go wild with asparagus, kale, peas, dill — anything that banishes the blasé gray of a New York winter.

From New York Times Mar. 25, 2023

And then something happens that banishes even that mystery from my head.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He has been banished for five years, but it should’ve been lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

It was a note of caution that showed questions about the Games' future had not been banished as the 2026 Games closed on Sunday evening.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Its pendant is a statue of Thomas Jefferson with the Declaration of Independence, banished from New York’s City Council Chamber in 2021 because of what the exhibition calls “his history as an enslaver.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Now she has been banished along with fruit and vegetable sellers to a vacant lot with lower foot traffic, her turnover roughly halving as a result.

From Barron's Jun. 2, 2026

Ancient sources talk about his perishing at sea for his impiety, or alternatively, say that the brotherhood banished him and constructed a tomb for him, expelling him from the world of human beings.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Five years later, Madison Square Garden was planted atop it, banishing sunlight and driving commuters into a subterranean maze of passageways.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

South Korea has an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment -- the last prisoners were executed in 1997 -- with a death sentence effectively banishing Yoon to life behind bars.

From Barron's Feb. 19, 2026

Not every present is greeted with delight - so instead of banishing them to the back of a cupboard, how can you get rid of them without causing offence?

From BBC Dec. 25, 2025

In case you’ve forgotten where “Stranger Things” left us, Vecna revealed that Eleven accidentally created him by banishing him to the Upside Down.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2025

She has performed a kind of emergency triage, banishing the infected to save the well.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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